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FERREZ, MARC (1843-1923)
Album entitled “Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” with 13 rich and remarkably detailed photographs. Includes
panoramic views of the harbor and city (in which various public buildings are identified), landscapes
(one with a photographer, perhaps Ferrez, in the foreground), street scenes, and monuments.Arch-
topped printing-out paper prints, 8x18 (20.3x45.7 cm.) to 14
3
/
4
x9
3
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4
inches (37.5x24.8 cm.), and
the reverse, each print with a title in the lower portion of the plate and adhered to a decorative and
printed mount, with Ferrez’s credit, address, and the location Brazil on mount recto; with interleafing
tissues (worn). Elephant folio, gilt-pictorial debossed morocco, backstrip perished, edgewear; with
the bookplate of Robert Webster Day on the front pastedown. 1880s
[40,000/60,000]
The sequence of plates includes:“Statue Dom Pedro” * “Rio Janeiro (De L’Ile Das Cobras”) * “Bairro
de Rio Janeiro” * “Jardin Public Vue Generale” * “Praia d’Irarahy” * “Palais Imperiale S. Christovo”
